Recording-and-reproducing apparatus and recording-and-reproducing method

1. A recording-and-reproducing apparatus for reproducibly controlling data recorded on a recording medium, comprising: means for acquiring control information required for reproducing the data when the data is recorded; means for controlling operations during a period from the start to the end of recording data on the recording medium; means for determining whether a recorded file of the data exceeds a predetermined limit of a storage capacity of a file system in the recoding medium and sequentially generating a subsequent recorded file upon exceeding the limit; means for generating a single recording-and-reproducing unit during the period from the start to the end of recording data on the recording medium indicated by the control means based on a plurality of recorded files, which are sequentially generated by the determining and generating means upon exceeding the limit; and means for updating the control information by recording the single recording-and-reproducing unit generated by the recording-and-reproducing unit generation means on the control information by adding to the control information locations of a take-info file, a not-real-time metadata file, and one or more clip information files for controlling clips included in the single recording-and-reproducing unit.

2. A recording-and-reproducing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the single recording-and-reproducing unit generated by the recording-and-reproducing unit generation means is independently defined, having the same folder configuration as that of editing information for the plurality of recorded files.

3. A recording-and-reproducing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the single recording-and-reproducing unit generated by the recording-and-reproducing unit generation means is independently defined by a namespace, which is different from a namespace of the editing information for the plurality of recoded files.

4. A recording-and-reproducing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein when the control information is updated by the update means, the single recording-and-reproducing unit is added to the control information in conjunction with the plurality of recoded files that constitute the single recording-and-reproducing unit.

5. A recording-and-reproducing apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein when the single recording-and-reproducing unit is reproduced, a single thumbnail image of the single recording-and-reproducing unit is displayed; and when the reproduction of the single recording-and-reproducing unit is indicated, the plurality of recorded files that constitute the single recording-and-reproducing unit, which is recorded on the control information, is reproduced.

6. A recording-and-reproducing method for reproducibly controlling data recorded on a recording medium, comprising the steps of: acquiring control information required for reproducing the data when the data is recorded; controlling operations during a period from the start to the end of recording data on the recording medium; determining whether a recorded file of the data exceeds a predetermined limit of a storage capacity of a file system in the recoding medium and sequentially generating a subsequent recorded file upon exceeding the limit; generating a single recording-and-reproducing unit during the period from the start to the end of recording data on the recording medium controlled by the control step based on a plurality of recorded files, which are sequentially generated by the determination and generation step upon exceeding the limit; and updating the control information by recording the single recording-and-reproducing unit generated by the recording-and-reproducing unit generation step on the control information by adding to the control information locations of a take-info file, a not-real-time metadata file, and one or more clip information files for controlling clips included in the single recording-and-reproducing unit.

7. A recording-and-reproducing apparatus for reproducibly controlling data recorded on a recording medium, comprising: a device configured to acquire control information required for reproducing the data when the data is recorded; a device configured to control operations during a period from the start to the end of recording data on the recording medium; a device configured to determine whether a recorded file of the data exceeds a predetermined limit of a storage capacity of a file system in the recoding medium and sequentially generate a subsequent recorded file upon exceeding the limit; a device configured to generate a single recording-and-reproducing unit during the period from the start to the end of recording data on the recording medium indicated by the control device based on a plurality of recorded files, which are sequentially generated by the determination and generation device upon exceeding the limit; and a device for updating the control information by recording the single recording-and-reproducing unit generated by the recording-and-reproducing unit generation device on the control information by adding to the control information locations of a take-info file, a not-real-time metadata file, and one or more clip information files for controlling clips included in the single recording-and-reproducing unit.